What did you discover today while playing the sims?

[ElZorro]

I had one of my Young Adult sims go out to a restaurant alone and someone stole her food after the waitress brought it, but before my Sim could eat any of it.

I didn't know NPCs would take food.

[Lemon&Lime]

I have discovered that my sims can't call family members and I have no idea why.

Their family members may not have a phone. If they do, check that your Sim has actually met them before. If they have met them, and everyone has a phone, it is most likely then to be a glitch.

[Menaceman44]

ElZorro, that happens quite a lot in my game and I find it very annoying. Someone pointed me to this fix> http://www.paladins-place.org/BETA-Plate-Stealing-Fix.htm
It worked for me for a while but then stopped when I bought some new EPs. You might as well try it and see if it works.

[Shuriken_Thrower]

That if a child visitor walks in on two people woo-hooing, they'll run as FAST as they can and leave the lot!

It was so funny! Poor girl must be traumatized now for sure XD

[psivampyr]

One of my family sims had a fear of "changing diaper". I found that amusing as she wanted to have the baby, but didn't want to take care of it. She really didn't take care of the baby at all, which I found odd for a family sim. She eventually died in a terrible lightning storm in the hot tub (which happened naturally- first time ever for me) then her husband not 5 minutes later died the same way. They got struck once in the hot tub and got out and go struck again.
Oh and I saw my first over heating sim catch on fire! I had never seen that before.

[Alexilibra_SC]

I learned that a sim can become furious if they get stood up on a date.

[akksgurl_SC]

I discovered that a sim with 1 nice point will laugh at their toddler if the toddler falls asleep on the floor. This happened in my newest legacy. Fletcher actually laughed at his son Jonathan after the kid passed out on the floor.

[Rabid]

^That's so mean! Your discovery makes me think of when mean children standing on a rug with another child have the option to rub their feet and give the other kid a static shock. Nice avvie, by the way :D.

[Fernweather]

Sims that are stupid enough to hang out in a hottub during a thunderstorm (i.e., most Sims) can be struck by lightning even if there is a lightning rod on the lot.

Bugs can escape from the bug box that comes with FreeTime. This infestation is similar to a roach infestation, except that it doesn't result in a negative memory for the Sim and it doesn't appear to cause the flu when Sims stomp on or spray the bugs. Also, if a Sim has a bug box in their house, little spiders or beetles can sometimes be seen skittering about on the floor near the box.

The champagne seriously tanks the bladders of any Sims participating in a toast. This effect is way more pronounced than the bladder depletion from a cup of espresso. This means that many of the visiting Sims participating in a toast may suddenly take off for home because they really really have to go. Go figure. Maybe its made from poisoned grapes which cause diarrhea....

If the paperboy/girl witnesses someone stealing a newspaper, they will yell at that person and lecture them.

[musiquefille_SC]

Bugs can escape from the bug box that comes with FreeTime. This infestation is similar to a roach infestation, except that it doesn't result in a negative memory for the Sim and it doesn't appear to cause the flu when Sims stomp on or spray the bugs. Also, if a Sim has a bug box in their house, little spiders or beetles can sometimes be seen skittering about on the floor near the box.

Whoa, really? Anyone else see this? I wonder if this is like fish and only certain graphics cards can see it. I'll check in my game tonight.

[psivampyr]

I saw a screen shot somewhere of the ant farms ants escaping. I am not sure if Fernweather was refering to the collection box or the ant farm. I know I zoomed in on the collection box and they are push pinned to the back board- so I don't think it would be those. Its really cool to think of the ants doing the cha-cha on my tables. I miss FT- my new puter won't install the EADM so I can't install it :(

[*roxette]

Granny legacy was teaching her new grandson how to walk... near the end she held her back and rubbed it gingerly as she stood up, like all that bending down to his level had left her very stiff

I thought it was very cute and realistic...

[Sevyd]

I had a sim child that lived with his sister and his grandfather, his mother had died while he was still a toddler. When he grew to child, he immediately rolled up the fears of "Clean up a Mess" and "Be Kissed by a Grandparent".

I have yet to see another sim roll up the grandparent fear since that sim.

[akksgurl_SC]

Today I discovered that random townies will not only play with your toddler but will also bathe them autonomously at midnight after being asked to leave. :insane:

[treeag]

Poor babies will catch a cold :blink:

Today I discovered that I rarely discover something new in the game. If it weren't for this thread...

[ani_]

How funny the hard sales animations looks - especially the customer who's being hard sold to.
I did discover other things, but by the time I'm thinking of writing to this thread, I'v forgotten what I was suppose to say.

[Fernweather]

I saw a screen shot somewhere of the ant farms ants escaping. I am not sure if Fernweather was refering to the collection box or the ant farm.
It was the collection box. I'll have to get an ant farm for one of my families and see if bugs escape from it as well.

[smellincoffee]

Vampires, sorority houses, and university living is a really bad idea. Why stay in your coffin when you can go off somewhere and risk being incinerated while lugging an old armchair back to your home?

[melethana]

the break up animation is soooo funny! Cassandra Goth (I just started playing Pleasantview) caught Don making out with the maid. So I then had her invite him over, for the purpose of breaking up. As soon as he came on the lot, she ran out onto the sidewalk, in her pajamas! and starting slapping and lecturing him. When I directed her to break up with him, the shouting and arm waving was just so funny! I was expecting the cops to show up. :madashel: I wish I had thought to make a movie. Cassandra, in her pajamas, on the sidewalk, yelling at her two-timing ex-fiancee. At least she had a good memory of breaking up with him

[gwengirl9105_SC]

That I can finally have smooth edges on without my game crashing thans to a new graphics card :D
And that greek house sims will visit campus to get pizza even if there are like 4 fresh ones already on the lot from 5 mins ago when their dormmate went to do the same thing X@

[Tina9340]

I discovered that legacies can be fun! I just started one today. And, it's awesome.

[cavilez]

I didn't really discover this today but I discovered that my sims look up at the sky like I am God (so to speak). Sometimes they even wave. I just start laughing at the screen. My hubby always has to run in the room and ask me what happened and when I show him and he is like oh gosh.

[psivampyr]

Fernweather- I had no idea- sorry I assumed it was the ant farm. I only hung a bug box on the wall once and kinda forgot about it. Thats really cool though, I been curious what some of the bugs looked like- guessing by some of the names of the bugs I am sure they are interesting.
Once I get FT again I will have to make it a goal to fill a bug box and watch it.

[Fernweather]

Fernweather- I had no idea- sorry I assumed it was the ant farm. I only hung a bug box on the wall once and kinda forgot about it. Thats really cool though, I been curious what some of the bugs looked like- guessing by some of the names of the bugs I am sure they are interesting.
Once I get FT again I will have to make it a goal to fill a bug box and watch it.
I'll have to remember to take a picture the next time it happens. I've seen it happen twice now. Once it happened when I sent a Sim to view the box. That was pretty funny - instead of the bug collection display coming up, the Sim let out a scream and started stomping his feet. When I zoomed in, I saw the bugs crawling around everywhere. The other time it just happened without anyone interacting with the box. It does seem kind of odd, though, that a collection of supposedly dead bugs would come to life. Then again, by Sim standards that probably scores pretty low on the weird index.

Another thing I've discovered is that the gestures that Sims can learn on the vacation lots will spread through your neighborhood like a virus. I sent a pair of my Sims to Twiikii (sp?) Island for their honeymoon and they learned the hang loose gesture. Now almost everyone of my playable Sims and a number of townies in Smuggler's Cove know the gesture. It's gotten where I can't send a Sim to a community lot without seeing at least one other Sim use the gesture towards someone.

This same couple also learned the sea chanty (the Sim version of the yo-ho pirate song). I'll have to have them teach it to a few other Sims and see if it is as infectious.

[BillyDee]

Today I discovered that Sims can have 3-way conversations on the telephone. If one of your Sims is on the phone talking to someone and another Sim picks up the phone, they can join in the conversation

[JavaJulie]

This same couple also learned the sea chanty (the Sim version of the yo-ho pirate song). I'll have to have them teach it to a few other Sims and see if it is as infectious.

It used to be horrendously, hideously infectious; I think one of the patches may have fixed it though (or the novelty *finally* wore off for my Sims after, literally, about 6 months of real time) because I haven't heard them do it in a while. Seriously, though, after the first dozen times, that Ro-ho-hoing gets extremely annoying.

[Menaceman44]

I think MATY has a hack for the sea chanty and greetings so that they can only be autonomously performed in the related location. It still lets you direct Sims to do it though. It sure saved my sanity.

[Lemon&Lime]

I discovered that Sims can fancy their half-siblings.

Seriously! I looked in the relationships panel and Pascal had 2 bolts for his half-sister, Chloe Singles. (Pascal's dad had alien twins).

[Tzigone]

I discovered that Sims can fancy their half-siblings.

Seriously! I looked in the relationships panel and Pascal had 2 bolts for his half-sister, Chloe Singles. (Pascal's dad had alien twins).Actually, they aren't marked as family in the game for some odd reason. I corrected their relationship with simpe - the lightning bolts really bothered me.

[Cyjon]

Actually, they aren't marked as family in the game for some odd reason. I corrected their relationship with simpe - the lightning bolts really bothered me.

At least you noticed. I realized they were family only when I noticed Chloe's daughter (by Lazlo) had the same grampa twice in her family tree. Eww.

[Lemon&Lime]

At least you noticed. I realized they were family only when I noticed Chloe's daughter (by Lazlo) had the same grampa twice in her family tree. Eww.

I noticed that they were related while looking for a name for Pascal's alien child (the one he was pregnant with at the beginning). Thankfully I've already married Chloe to Ajay Loner; if I noticed the lightning bolts before Pascal had his baby and Chloe got married... *shudders even though its only pixels*.

Maybe they're not marked as family because Chloe and Lola were disowned? The family album for the Curious family seems to suggest that.

[charlie-chan_SC]

Some of these had already been discovered but I hadn't seen them in the game yet:

- Sims can swing the fridge door back and forth
- Alien genetics isn't always black eyes and green skin :D

I had discovered a third thing but I cannot remember it lol.

[Fernweather]

If a Sim has been a member of a secret society at a university, the option "Play ... Secret Handshake" comes up when that Sim selects a baby for interaction. Of course, the baby can't participate in the handshake so the Sim just stares at it stupidly. :wtf:

[charlie-chan_SC]

If a Sim has been a member of a secret society at a university, the option "Play ... Secret Handshake" comes up when that Sim selects a baby for interaction. Of course, the baby can't participate in the handshake so the Sim just stares at it stupidly. :wtf:

How weird! lol.

I remember the third thing I discovered today. I am not sure if it's a phone hack but when my sim tried calling someone late at night an option came up with "It is bad to harass, mmmkay" and you could either click the option "harass" or "cancel."

[Ferret II]

I discovered that sims can change their appearence whilst holding a baby.

[kustirider2]

That toddler sims can sleep in the doghouses!

edit: I think i figured out samantha and kimberley's story (The witches)
It says that they left their "Pleasant" little town
Their house looks like the pleasants
They're sisters and one is good and one is evil
They could possibly be lillith and angela?....

[charlie-chan_SC]

Sims can have a birthday whilst holding a baby! Vidcund Curious got bugged and had to age to adult, and did it while holding his son.

That happened in my game too. He had a baby and then he became an adult. I didn't notice that he was a teenager :confused:.

On the note of the witches, they could be Lilith and Angela; They also could be related family members.

I haven't installed Apartment Life yet to check the family tree.

[kustirider2]

On the note of the witches, they could be Lilith and Angela; They also could be related family members.

I haven't installed Apartment Life yet to check the family tree.

Aw, crap. I knew i meant to check the tree... And i just quit!. Oh well, ill never play them anyway :P

[Robo-KAI]

That toddler sims can sleep in the doghouses!

Totally trying this now. That sounds adorable.

[kustirider2]

They can also sleep on the dog's beds

[charlie-chan_SC]

For the Cordial sisters, they are not related to the Pleasants in any way.

They might have lived within Pleasantview or in Oz :P

[seva13]

I discovered that Sims can walk, with a book in their hands 0.o

http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq286/vampiresandwolf/snapshot_d5b81d67_35c5d267.jpg

and

http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq286/vampiresandwolf/snapshot_d5b81d67_b5c5d263.jpg

I assume it came with FreeTime, and Sims with high Film/Literature hobbies do it. But I'm not quite sure, still very cool. :)

PS: In the pictures it doesn't look like she's walking, but rather she's standing up. But trust, me she WAS walking!

[psivampyr]

I discovered that witches can craft "gothic" style furniture and such. Theres a chair, floor lamp, hanging light and some other things.
Also if you have bad/no lighting in a apartment that you aren't playing and your sim visits those neighbors, everything will be dark and shadowy. I found this out when I turned on ALL lights in the building and there were none in the visited apartment. All the furniture was black sillouetted and the rooms were dark.

[Katya Stevens]

Sim kids can steal their neighbours' newspaper. I just had John Alanis creep along all evil-looking, then steal the paper.

Also, doesn't quite count as "found while playing", but I was extracting music a couple of days ago and found two songs with the names: "Good Evening Bella" and "Mortimer's Touch".

[Menaceman44]

That the assault course career reward can be haunted. The mesh tunnel bit sort of flaps up and down crazily.

That with AL friends can randomly gift items to your Sim. I had a work collegue give my sim a 'little sister' computer as she was "working on a new product" that she wanted my Sim to help test.

[melethana]

you can give away novels that you have written, but you don't get to keep a copy for yourself.
I had a sim read a custom novel, then I deleted the bookcase, poor guy, walked around the whole house, before he set the novel on a desk. I then put the novel in his inventory, and had him invite over a sim from another household. He gave her the novel using the "give gift" social interaction. So when I play in her house, she can read the novel, but he and his household no longer have a copy!

[Night Racer]

that when a evil sim summons her broom "she says -boor- in a very evil and suggestive way...and cacles then flys off...but when nice sims do it shes like "roob" and she says it in a really nice way...as if telling it to come out LMFAO
probobly nothing...but i love the little details...and simlish in general is just amazing ._.

the one thing i dont get...evil says boor... nice says roob... but...that whould make it 2 diffrent words..like "mop" and "vaccume" for instance :s

[JavaJulie]

Well, boor is "roob" flipped around, and evil is sort of the flip side of good, so I think it's pretty clever, myself ;)

[blackstallion681]

I discovered that when sims wet themselves, they shake their leg afterwards (I was playing my Asylum house ;) )

[Ferret II]

I discovered that the kites from OFB can be hung on the wall for decoration as well as be played with.

[Fantasyrogue]

I discovered that the kites from OFB can be hung on the wall for decoration as well as be played with.

They can? *runs off to try*

Why do I never find these things out on my own!

EDIT:

I've just discovered angry teenagers can stomp flowers o.O My flower beds!

[Fernweather]

I only just recently got a good look at the animation for a crib escape. When the toddler first managed to push the gate down on the crib, he got this funny surprised expression on his face. He then looked around, as if to see if anyone was watching, before climbing out (and waddling off to play in the toilet).

[novemberlove_SC]

I discovered that the kites from OFB can be hung on the wall for decoration as well as be played with.

There are kites that came with OFB? Where? :blink:

[Ferret II]

There are kites that came with OFB? Where? :blink:

You can craft them with the toymaking bench. But I think there is a hack somewhere so that you can buy all of the craftable toys from buy mode. I think I asked for it in the WCIF, so if you search you should be able to find it.

[lazzybum]

Discovered that cats and dogs can use elevators by themselves o_O

[Fernweather]

Lightning will strike Sims silly enough to sit through a thunderstorm in a hot tub even if you have a lightning rod on the lot. I had thought that the lightning rod was foolproof protection against getting zapped, but I guess such gross stupidity trumps even its amazing powers.

[groovy13]

About UNiversity
My male alien sim (Johnson Mole, son of John Mole from Alien in Desiderata Valley) felt in love with 2 female sims, this 2 girls are roommate, BFF and lived in the same household.
The 1st girl (Shelby) was his 1st love since they were teenager, and they are going steady before both go to college.
The 2nd girl (Stella, alien from college) appeared, she has much in common with Johnson like a perfect couple. So i decide to get rid of Shelby but the problem is they were engaged.
--> Then I have Johnson invited Shelby over, then he made an affair with an innocense Cheerleader who goes by his place (so poor hix), in front of his fiancee, Shelby slapped him then it's chance to break up! And I still have the friendship 'tween Shelby and Stella. haha ^^!

_Then Johnson finished his UNI, went back to Desiderata Valley and had an suprise-engage with Stella (Stella not yet finish her UNI) and got a job of his desire Paranormal career at beginning level 'cause he only have 2 friends.

---> Thing happens! Everyday, after work he got a promotion no matter what his skills and friends. And a thread some like this: "Stella was pull a string at your work, you got a promotion!" So cool!
But Stella not strong enough to pull this string for so long, so she stopped there before Johnson reach the top of his career, then Johnson need to work it out to be on top. After all, Johnson and Stella get marriaged! A happy ending! But Shelby still so furious about that cheerleader and Johnson! haha :goodbad

It's not bad, isn't it? *.*

[groovy13]

About OFB!
They are mother and son plant sims (with 50,000simoleons bonus from work) and 3 teenager staffs, they are starting a business with sculptures and flowers.
So just 1 sim week, at their business lot, they sale and earned over 1 millions Simoleons (by me)!!!
I read somewhere in the web, they say "If you get your sims money up to 999,999,999 it will stay like that! No matter how much money you get or lose it will stay". But I don't know, but I did it! (I dont like cheat, i always like challenge, and i dont want any lag, glitch cause of cheat in my game).

Just easy, treat well and be friend with the sims who "rich" can buy-able, just sale all goods for them over and over till them drop. Normally, with 1 sim, I can sale about 30,000simoleons.
I have the mother plantsim (always in good mood with some garden-light) to sale and her 2 staffs (one is cashier, the other is sale person), and the son'll manage about stock and make flowers and sometimes sales also.
When the 2 staffs are tired, i sent them home, then call the other one to work (the good one, i think she's an active sim). At this time, it'd be busy to mange cause only 3 sims to show goods, sale, stock and do cashier thing.

- They all have gold-sale talent badge. And I add snapdragon flowers in every corner of the shop to keep the mood of staffs and customers.

Just easy, you'll figure it out!

PS: when you go back to your lot to take care of something else (free time) you will have the money from your business, me I got over 100 thousands/day (and it drops when you stay at home for so long!
and dont forget to promote staff to be manager!!!

[groovy13]

And by the way, i'm playing a challenge about ghost (a really difficult one 'cause to kill sim people)!!!

So anyone know about GOOD GHOST???
I heard about this, they can clean the house, trim garden..? But I dont know how to have a special ghost like this. Any suggestion? Thanks!
--> sorry to write it here, just a by the way! ^^

[Night Racer]

edit post is your friend....double/triple posts are bad...mmmkay?
and i found out that all the AL playground stuff, the color choices match the base game swing..lmao...and the swing was also moved into hobbies>>>games with the new stuff

[Charley-x]

that sims can spot shooting stars, :D

[FlyingEvil_SC]

Today I doscovered that building apartments on a beach lot gives the sea a wierd bug! xD
"OoooOoOOooo! Its floating! YEY!" :smash:

[lazzybum]

Today my newborn girl had eyes not of her parents, nor her grandparents, but her great grandfather!! I knew granparents can pass down those genes, but not GREAT grandparents o_o

[ani_]

That people will call you when you are running you community business.

This was not today, but last weekend, one of my teens finally got cought by the cops. Well, the mom was dead so there was nobody the cop could lecture, but I'v never had a teen getting cought while sneaking out.

[love247_jo]

i discovered that my game can crash becuase of a song in the music folder!!
the song kinda corrupted, so everytime it plays on the sims radio, the game crashes,
i went crazy, but when it happened 3 times, i realized the reason !!!

[charlie-chan_SC]

I discovered today that the nose that Lila Green has is the same nose as her father Gabriel!

I only realised when I sent her to University and he was giving her away during the animation. D'oh!

[LegolianM]

If a sim dies pregnant and you resurrect them as a zombie, they'll still be pregnant. I wasn't sure what would happen since zombies can't have kids. XD

It's odd though how she's lost ALL knowledge whatsoever of her spouse. Someone from another house resurrected her; she remembers their daughter but her husband doesn't even appear in her relationships at all. Kinda sad since she's still carrying his child!

[Elspeth73]

I discovered that when a child sees the man her mother is having an affair with kiss someone else, then she'll stand on the pavement and cry and hate them all three of them.

I get why she's mad at her mother and the bloke - but why would she care that the bloke her mother is cheating on her father with, is also cheating on her mother?

[JavaJulie]

I discovered that when a child sees the man her mother is having an affair with kiss someone else, then she'll stand on the pavement and cry and hate them all three of them.

I get why she's mad at her mother and the bloke - but why would she care that the bloke her mother is cheating on her father with, is also cheating on her mother?
I dunno, if I found out my mother's boyfriend was cheating on her, I'd probably be pretty pissed at him too. It's not bad enough to cheat with a married woman, but then to cheat on her too? Pah!

;)

[ktbcca]

I discovered that when a sim flushes the toilet while another sim is in the shower, the sim in the shower will scream, jump out of the shower, and yell at and poke the sim who flushed the toilet :D

[Lemon&Lime]

I discovered one of the messages that you get when children become orphans. I've never let that happen before but I had to after someone else mentioned one of the messages earlier.

[Menaceman44]

I've discovered that my graphics card isn't great for the new ability to move wall hangings up and down. I can move them up fine but if I move them lower than their original height then the light doesn't effect them and they go all shadowy.

[popsicle]

I've discovered that my graphics card isn't great for the new ability to move wall hangings up and down. I can move them up fine but if I move them lower than their original height then the light doesn't effect them and they go all shadowy.

How do you move wall hangings up and down?!? Is that somethin that came with AL?

[fallfromgrace2006]

I only just recently got a good look at the animation for a crib escape. When the toddler first managed to push the gate down on the crib, he got this funny surprised expression on his face. He then looked around, as if to see if anyone was watching, before climbing out (and waddling off to play in the toilet).

Oh wow! How do toddlers escape from their cribs?

[Ferret II]

Oh wow! How do toddlers escape from their cribs?


If they can walk and if they've been left in the crib for ages until they're fed up, they climb out:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/mozzow/Spencer%20Legacy/one%20point%20one/09.jpg

There is also a hack (http://www.simlogical.com/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Childcare.htm) which you can use, its called 'CribGetOutAll'.

And popsicle, yes thats an Apartment Life feature :D

[Charley-x]

hey its baby heather spencer... heyyy heather ^^ :D.....

i discovered.. thst the moose ears pose from bv and the ant hill thingy are really simular when kiddies do it.... :) im bored so i'd fort i'd post this boring fact.

[Stasisesque_SC]

That playing without Insim, Numenor's hacked clothing rack or ACR is really, really hard. Yet refreshing. It's been a long time since I've played with no hacks.

[NuNu_SC]

Today I found out the toddlers can sleep in pet beds! It was such a surprise when my sleepy toddler climb into one of my pet beds and went to sleep. One of my dogs was kinda mad at him for taking his spot. He had a thought bubble of my baby with a X on it. I haven't tried pet houses yet though.

[lilsweetcori]

I've discovered that my graphics card isn't great for the new ability to move wall hangings up and down. I can move them up fine but if I move them lower than their original height then the light doesn't effect them and they go all shadowy.

That's caused by the graphics card? I thought my card rocked and mine still does that too :(

I found out that while youre at a community lot, other people can call your kids at home

[LegolianM]

I discovered that, if you have a vampire who's also a Plantsim, the sunlight need doesn't stop going down at night or when they're in a coffin like all the other needs do.

However, apparently sun lamps work through coffin lids. I put one over it and he got his sunlight while he slept!

[MaryH]

I didn't discover this today, but it's happened more than once: I've got Rebecka's (MTS) teen and adult bike, as well as the toddler trike.
In some of my houses with toddlers, I've got the teen bike-and the toddler gets on it and rides the darn thing! Funnier than hell, and it actually gives them physical and fun points!
Imagine a 3 year old riding a 10 speed! Talk about active! While it could be a glitch, it is a good glitch, and one that I'm not too worried about.

[Menaceman44]

That's caused by the graphics card? I thought my card rocked and mine still does that too :(

I found out that while youre at a community lot, other people can call your kids at home


Well I assumed it was a graphics card issue.

Do you mean you can see other Sims on the lot using a phone to call your kids at home? I don't quite understand.

[lilsweetcori]

yep, I can see them calling my kids. It was odd I was shopping, and I got this little pop up with someone at the store saying "oh Isaiah isnt home right now? I'll call back later" (or something to that effect... I should have taken a screeny) Then I see the son, Isaiah walk into the store, so nope he wasnt at home haha.

[Kusama]

This wasn't discovered today, but anyone here got the discount coupon for a restaurant in their mailbox, too?

[treeag]

This was yesterday, but finally, after playing the game for 2 years; two toddlers in my game fought over a bottle of milk. Also one of them escaped from the crib like Ferret posted up there.

[Menaceman44]

I discovered it is NOT a good idea to use the sledge hammer tool to delete stages built on top of foundations. If you do then you can't delete the foundation underneath cos it reckons the stage is still there.

[lazzybum]

This wasn't discovered today, but anyone here got the discount coupon for a restaurant in their mailbox, too?

oh wow, that use to happen alot, but i dont see it anymore D:!!! been at least a year or 2 without having those :(

[Kusama]

It happened to me only one time... Is this happens randomly?

[Demon Dude]

I found out that if you have pigtails, then your Sim sometimes twirls them in her fingers when she is idle. (Sitting down or whatever)

[Destinita]

I've discovered that reading this thread spoils my fun!! >D

Teehee

[Menaceman44]

Its NOT a good idea to get a Servo to rent an apartment. If they break down then nobody attempts to repair them. The landlord wont because the servo is inside an apartment room, not a common area and the servo wont auto call a repairman because there are other Sims on the lot. At least thats the case if they have a roommate, who also wont try to fix them!
I had to use the controlpets cheat in the end so the roommate could repair him.

[theheartofatlantis]

I discovered when I got up this morning to play the sims that I spent 6 hours downloading from EAgames.com crashed and no longer works, now I have to spend another 6 hours just to download it again. I may just go and buy it instead, I want University and OFB and they are not downloadable so I thought if I go and get those I may as well buy The Sims 2 again.

[Lemon&Lime]

That if you have a hack that lets your Sims have triplets/quads, its very likely that the resulting triplets will suffer from first born syndrome. Nina Caliente had triplets - two girls and one boy, and the girls are exact copies of each other.

[JavaJulie]

That if you have a hack that lets your Sims have triplets/quads, its very likely that the resulting triplets will suffer from first born syndrome. Nina Caliente had triplets - two girls and one boy, and the girls are exact copies of each other.
I was under the impression that First Born Syndrome kicked in due to only having one child per session (because the algorithm resets to the beginning) and that having multiple children during the same session was the safe route. Maybe because they are triplets, the game decided to make them identical?

[melethana]

an elder male and an adult female can "try for baby" For some reason I thought different age groups couldn't do that.
Step-siblings can make-out and go steady, and (hopefully) get married as adults. It's a little creepy, since they've know each other their whole lives, but their parents are both vampires, so creepy is relative.
oh! in Downtown, there is a huge house, called house of falling trees? leaves? that has a triple deep basement with 2 coffins in it.

[Menaceman44]

The House of Fallen Trees. Old home to the Tricou family that are buried at Gothier Green Lawns cemetery.
There's a whole discussion thread about it here (http://forums.sims2community.com/showthread.php?t=32107).

[Ferret II]

I was under the impression that First Born Syndrome kicked in due to only having one child per session (because the algorithm resets to the beginning) and that having multiple children during the same session was the safe route. Maybe because they are triplets, the game decided to make them identical?

You're right, apart from the last part. The game customises genetics...so it couldn't decide whether to make them identical or not. Proberbly a glitch.

[simsample]

That if you have a hack that lets your Sims have triplets/quads, its very likely that the resulting triplets will suffer from first born syndrome. Nina Caliente had triplets - two girls and one boy, and the girls are exact copies of each other.

Just for information- the firstborn effect does not affect appearance or genetics, just the personality. The fact that you have three identical looking sims is just down to chance. Were their personalities different? I think the firstborn effect always gives you Aries.

[Demon Dude]

Firstborn effect? I've never heard of this, what are the details?

[JavaJulie]

Firstborn effect? I've never heard of this, what are the details?
You can read about it here: http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Pregnancy#Rolling_the_Pacifier_and_Firstborn_Syndrome - and it does affect looks.

[simsample]

You can read about it here: http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Pregnancy#Rolling_the_Pacifier_and_Firstborn_Syndrome - and it does affect looks.

Wow, who wrote that article? I'll have to edit that! It is just the personality and hence zodiac that is affected- read these posts by JMPescado, Kyna and JSalemi:

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,3.0.html
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,72.msg273281/topicseen.html#msg273281
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,72.msg14381/topicseen.html#msg14381
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,72.msg60477/topicseen.html#msg60477
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,12811.msg365090.html#msg365090

[psivampyr]

I found out that if I am watching tv and my daughter loads my game without my knowledge I will come to find a hood completely filled with rainbow boxes! I exited without saving, but I am not sure if I will have to manually removed all 50+ rainbow boxes. She filled the AL hood with rainbow boxes- every single spot she could put them there is one.

[Lemon&Lime]

Just for information- the firstborn effect does not affect appearance or genetics, just the personality. The fact that you have three identical looking sims is just down to chance. Were their personalities different? I think the firstborn effect always gives you Aries.

I disagree. It does effect genetics and appearence. If I don't roll the pacifyer each time I load the game, I get identical siblings.

These are two of the triplets. They have different personalities but identical genetics.
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff142/Tangodancer17/snapshot_2dae895f_35cec292.jpg

I'm assuming that the firstborn effect is the same as firstborn syndrome, but here is another example...

This is Zanu. He was born first.
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff142/Tangodancer17/snapshot_d5af1ced_35b1d2db.jpg

This is his younger sister Effie. She was born a week (real time) after Zanu was born, when Zanu was about to age up to teenager (i.e. different playing session, when I didn't roll the pacifyer). They're clones of each other, even though they are different genders. I will check their personalities.
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff142/Tangodancer17/snapshot_d5af1ced_15c443bb-1.jpg


I do have some more examples in my game - I even have a family where there is a successtion of 3 daughters born in different playing sessions who are genetic clones of each other. I'll get some pictures if you like.

[JavaJulie]

Wow, who wrote that article? I'll have to edit that! It is just the personality and hence zodiac that is affected- read these posts by JMPescado, Kyna and JSalemi:

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,3.0.html
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,72.msg273281/topicseen.html#msg273281
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,72.msg14381/topicseen.html#msg14381
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,72.msg60477/topicseen.html#msg60477
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,12811.msg365090.html#msg365090
Hmm, the article was written by Hysterical Paroxysm, and as Figgi says, I have seen many instances where Sims born in different sessions were absolutely identical to each other, not just very similar, but indistinguishable from one another.

[simsample]

Figgi, the triplets example doesn't count- the sims were born in the same game session if they are triplets, so only the first wouls be subject to the firstborn effect.
JavaJulie, yes- I've spoken to HP and she's standing by this. However I'm doing some further digging to find out, so I'll let you know what I find!

[Tzigone]

Well, I had two, born in different sessions. One boy, one girl. Identical genetics (I checked their recessives) and identical personalities. And it's not like they had really limited genetic options, due to homogeneous parents. They had a brown/blond dad with light blue/green eye genetics and a blond/redhead mom with light blue/gray eye genetics. Both were brown haired and green eyed with red hair recessives and the same recessive eyes
(can't remember whether blue or gray). I always thought it affected appearance - even before I had that happen. But I'm no expert.

[Bree2kool8]

I found out that if you have pigtails, then your Sim sometimes twirls them in her fingers when she is idle. (Sitting down or whatever)

Really?!?!? That's so cute!!

[Lemon&Lime]

Well, I had two, born in different sessions. One boy, one girl. Identical genetics (I checked their recessives) and identical personalities. And it's not like they had really limited genetic options, due to homogeneous parents. They had a brown/blond dad with light blue/green eye genetics and a blond/redhead mom with light blue/gray eye genetics. Both were brown haired and green eyed with red hair recessives and the same recessive eyes
(can't remember whether blue or gray). I always thought it affected appearance - even before I had that happen. But I'm no expert.

I think you mean heterozygous, which means that it has two different alleles for a certain gene (e.g. Bb). Homozygous means it has two matching alleles for a gene (e.g. BB).

I started my own experiment on this today. One child born already from one playing session. Going to play on it tomorrow and see if the resulting child is identical.

I discovered that ACR can be a pesky hack sometimes.

[Tzigone]

I think you mean heterozygous, which means that it has two different alleles for a certain gene (e.g. Bb). Homozygous means it has two matching alleles for a gene (e.g. BB). No, I meant homogeneous. My phrasing was awkward, but what I meant was that they would have had far more limited options if their parents had been homogeneous (meaning they'd only be brown haired, light blue-eyed kids with blond recessives), but their parents were not homogeneous, so the possible combinations were not as limited.

So I wasn't saying that they had homogeneous parents, but rather that I knew homogeneous parents would have limited genetic possibilities and clarifying that this was not the case here.

[Lemon&Lime]

No, I meant homogeneous. My phrasing was awkward, but what I meant was that they would have had far more limited options if their parents had been homogeneous (meaning they'd only be brown haired, light blue-eyed kids with blond recessives), but their parents were not homogeneous, so the possible combinations were not as limited.

So I wasn't saying that they had homogeneous parents, but rather that I knew homogeneous parents would have limited genetic possibilities and clarifying that this was not the case here.

Homogeneous is the wrong term. The actual term is homozygous.

[JavaJulie]

Few people, outside of a scientific discussion, would refer to people who look similar as "homozygous"; homogeneous here just refers to two people who look alike.

I believe Tzigone's point is that if both parents had brown hair, brown eyes, and big noses, (ie, homogeneous looking) no one would be surprised if their kids were born brown-haired, brown-eyed and big-nosed. But if only one parent was brown-brown big, and one parent was blond, blue eyed, and button nosed, then every child ending up blonde-blue-button would be more surprising.

[simsample]

Okay guys, simsample and HP have some conclusive (sort of) results to give you on the firstborn effect! To save typing it again, I'm going to paste my PM to HystericalParoxysm here so that you can all read it:

Well I did some more digging, but now I'm even more confused! I decided to do some 'controlled' tests in game as I realised I'd messed up the one I did last night. I even got my daughter to help to make sure I did it right! This is what we did- we made two CAS sims with very different features, skintones and eye colours. We put them in a lot and restarted the game. Then we made them parent a baby, aged it to adult, restarted the game and repeated. We checked the personality, appearance and SimDNA (to get the facial feature inheritance and recessive genes) of each one. After ten babies, we were convinced that each one- apart from gender- was absolutely identical in appearance, genetics and personality. My daughter suggested that we repeat with another generation to test if recessive genes may vary when heterozygous sims were used, so we did this too and still got identical offspring. So I thought I'd come here and tell you you're right after all! However there is a slight snag, as I had PMed a few people for further information. I got this one from JM Pescado:

"Firstborn Effect" seems to primarily influence personality. It does not appear to impact genetics, although many children appear identical anyway because there are only so many permutations of facial combination.

D'oh! I'm guessing he must be certain of this, as he made the Sim generator rerandomizer feature to overcome the personality bug- so if there is no code reason for the similarities, why are we seeing them? I know my tests were not conclusive, but what are the chances of getting ten sims who are identical? I reckon your article should be decreed correct for all intents and purposes, as even though I could have sworn I've not experienced this in game before (my daughter too), our tests showed it was happening, and lots of others are saying they see it too.

So make of that what you will, but even though JM Pescado backs me up I reckon there must be something else going on as so many people are seeing this. HystericalParoxysm pwns me! :D

[Tzigone]

Homogeneous is the wrong term. The actual term is homozygous.
Sorry. Long time since science classes.

Anyway, I looked at my two in SimPE. The also had the exact same dominant features - nose,brow,mouth,eyes,jaw. That particular combination was not shared by any of their other four siblings.

edit: Read previous post. I'll leave it to the experts to say. Certainly, having had only one firstborn effect myself, I can't say at all.

[Katya Stevens]

That if you have Seasons and Open for Business, if you have any harvested lemons in your inventory you can use them to "make fresh lemonade" on the lemonade stand.

[LadyAngua]

I found out that if I am watching tv and my daughter loads my game without my knowledge I will come to find a hood completely filled with rainbow boxes! I exited without saving, but I am not sure if I will have to manually removed all 50+ rainbow boxes. She filled the AL hood with rainbow boxes- every single spot she could put them there is one.

Hehehe... my son(4) does that all the time! Only he likes the lighthouses and now the trains. He'll put down 20 lighthouses in one spot so you have one lighthouse with a solid 360 beam of light.
I'm afraid you will have to remove them manually now; the best thing to do is to ctrl+z and just hold the z key down until they all disappear but when you exit from the neighbourhood it saves whatever changes you have made :-(
My son has his own neighbourhood now filled with trains, dozens of helicopters, lighthouses and whatever else takes his fancy.

[melethana]

it's my week off, and what do I do all day? Play Sims of course!
1st, my computer hates the Goth house. After 45 min of playing I get a "cannot find DriectX" error, and Sims crashes. Took me 3 days to realize that was the only lot that crashed, so I just moved the whole family out. It was either, the lot is MUCH bigger than any of my other residential lots, it is the only lot that has ghosts, which count as sims?, or it had about twice as many objects as any other lot. So good riddance! I just won't play it.
2nd, Romance Sims are disturing. I got a sim with the WooHoo 20 Sims LTW to perma-plat. You don't actually need to WooHoo 20 different sims, you just need to get 20 WooHoo memories. Since Woohoo on a residential lot and Woohoo on a community lot each create their own memory, you could theoretically only Woohoo 10 sims, and achieve the Woohoo 20 Sims LTW.
Sims turn invisible when they makeout or Woohoo in a car. I sent them to get busy in a convertible, and when I checked to see what kind of animations there would be, I could not see my sims! I could hear them, and the car jumped around, but no sims! They were normal when they got out of the car.
I have an exhibitionist Townie who will not wear a swimsuit. He got into a hot tob on community lot in his birthday suit, and another townie stood there for 3 sim hours being shocked every 10 minutes or so. If it disturbs you that much, just walk away! :rofl:

[psivampyr]

Since Woohoo on a residential lot and Woohoo on a community lot each create their own memory, you could theoretically only Woohoo 10 sims, and achieve the Woohoo 20 Sims LTW.

I didn't know that. I have 3 sims with that LTW and I will do that instead as finding 20 random sims seems a bit too dramatic for me. And if she's been around the block THAT much, that means my other sims were neglected a long time.

Sims turn invisible when they makeout or Woohoo in a car. I sent them to get busy in a convertible, and when I checked to see what kind of animations there would be, I could not see my sims! I could hear them, and the car jumped around, but no sims! They were normal when they got out of the car.

After FT I had that glitch happen too. Before I owned FT they didn't go invisible. And when I say they were invisible, they got out of the car and all I saw was thier plumbob.

I have an exhibitionist Townie who will not wear a swimsuit. He got into a hot tob on community lot in his birthday suit, and another townie stood there for 3 sim hours being shocked every 10 minutes or so. If it disturbs you that much, just walk away! :rofl:[/QUOTE]

That shocked reaction makes me laugh every time it happens. Today I had an elder scream out in horror when his grand daughter was getting her diaper changed- I about snorted my coffee it was SO funny. They do it after woohoo too and its like- gee you just doinked me and now you wanna scream about my nudeness? So funny.

The thing I found out today in Sims 2 was if one sim is caught cheating and the option "break up" is selected- the one shown the door will actually move out. I moved the guy down the street to a trailor park and every day 6am-2am he comes into the house and acts like he lives there. He won't help himself to food or showers, but he will interact with certain people and is treated like a guest. But his ex-wife who does live there doesn't seem to notice he is even there. I tried to make them chat but he just plugged his ears and lalalalala'ed until I told her to go do something else. He does not interact with her child as its not biologically his- she was preg before they met. But his mistress that lives with the ex-wife (she moved in after he moved out because his ex-father inlaw wanted her to move in) the ex wife wants to beat her down every time they are in the same room. He's extremely a nice guy, but he was the 4th romance sim in the home when he lived there and he is a maxis fug so he had to go. I just found it interesting that he comes over and hangs out like that. I used to have parents visit thier kids when they lived away from them, but that hasn't happened since I bought more then the base game.
sorry this is so long

[Piyokochanxoxo]

Hehehe... my son(4) does that all the time! Only he likes the lighthouses and now the trains. He'll put down 20 lighthouses in one spot so you have one lighthouse with a solid 360 beam of light.
I'm afraid you will have to remove them manually now; the best thing to do is to ctrl+z and just hold the z key down until they all disappear but when you exit from the neighbourhood it saves whatever changes you have made :-(
My son has his own neighbourhood now filled with trains, dozens of helicopters, lighthouses and whatever else takes his fancy.


At least it's excusable when children do it, but one day my 16 year old friend went into my neighborhood and filled it up with the Will Wright rock, EVERYWHERE. @_@;

[Annette_SC]

It's nothing new but it was to me - I never had any "connections" as far as my job goes until my sim's girlfriend called him up. Turns out his boss was her cousin so she pulled a few strings and got him a raise! Nice!

[Noako]

I learned a sim can sit on a couch during serenade!
Seriously! I have played like 3 years and never noticed this.

[Kusama]

This wasn't today, but did someone see this too? When my sim was on a campground and took a tent, some elder guy came and attacked my sim. When the guy lost a fight, he said that my sim is too strong for him and he leaves that place for him, something like that.

[I_Love_Simming]

When my knowledge teenager's aspiration was a little in the red, he would sometimes do that wave thing to moan about it being in red, then he ran outside and kept stomping on the flowers in anger. LOL never seen that before..

[JavaJulie]

A very minor thing, but I "found" the physical location of the secret lot for the Twikii island destination after installing Gunmod's camera hack.

[psivampyr]

Don's shower always leaks even if I upgrade from cheapest to nicest. I don't know if its a glitch or not- its kinda funny though thinking the biggest womanizer out there has a leaky bathroom.
Don can also salvage the garbage which I found funny as you'd think someone of his stature would be against it. I know its the way his personality is set up, but its still funny if you look at it from a different point of view.
Oh and you can have a sim make grilled cheese in a toaster! I had no idea you could do that.

[Menaceman44]

Don's showers always leak because of his personality as well. If Sims are sloppy they make puddles when they are in the shower.

[Kusama]

When my knowledge teenager's aspiration was a little in the red, he would sometimes do that wave thing to moan about it being in red, then he ran outside and kept stomping on the flowers in anger. LOL never seen that before..
Teens in low aspiration may kick a thrash can, and if they're really sloppy they can even go and grub about trash, but this doesn't require low aspiration.

[LegolianM]

I rediscovered why I love to play Uni sometimes, and why I love that cow mascot so much. :D

I sent four teenage males to college together. Two of them, Luc and Grave, were in a relationship together, one, Tristan, had a preference for females but it was very low, and the last one, Mark, didn't have a gender preference yet.

Enter the (male) cow mascot, who proceeded to flirt with Mark, thus setting his preference to males. He then began flirting with Tristan, which changed him to bisexual since he wasn't very strongly straight.

Next thing I know, Mark's rolling romantic wants for Tristan, and it turns out they have two bolts together! I love it when stuff like that happens, they wound up in love and I didn't even have to do anything. :lol:

[nerina]

This is so awesome I had to share. I was playing my legacy family, and they had this (unwanted) toddler... gen2 when gen 4 is about to be born, thank you so much.... not! Anyway, I ignore the little spawn of Satan for a while and when I check back on her, she was doing this.

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u301/stefania_nerina/LaetitiaGen2-toddler.jpg

Yes, that's a pet bed. She went there on her own. I think I'm loving this. Cribs? Who needs them! :P

[Fantasyrogue]

Lego, lol. Why don't my cow mascots ever do things like this? They only poke my sims and make them cry (because all my sims are wusses). Then again, I don't think a cow mascot could easily adjust my sims' preferences, I've got it set to high.
Nerina, I only recently found that out myself, it's neat :D

I've found out that servos are absolutely useless at cooking for bakeries. The "make many" command for pies just keeps dropping out of the queue because they want to clean the counters or get rid of the roaches those stupid evil witches keep leaving behind (hate those witches!).

However, werewolves make for awesome help in shops. Because they change at nightfall and get all their energy back it's a lot easier than a normal sim to keep them up all day and night working the shop (just make sure there's enough food around).

[Kusama]

Fantasyrogue, servos are the best helpers for my bakeries. I just turn of the free will.

[Fantasyrogue]

But I like playing with free will on, so many more interesting things happen that way XD It's just the servo that drives me mad. She's obsessive about cleaning at the worst times. Not as bad as her obsession with serving food though, ugh.

[Night Racer]

i think thers a mod out there to stop servos from auto--- getting do chores interactions...yes...the Servo Controller? i dont know...

[MaryH]

I have TwoJeff's "perfectplants" mod in my game, and I have found that it keeps the money trees blooming! No watering needed!

[Henry Crun]

i think thers a mod out there to stop servos from auto--- getting do chores interactions...yes...the Servo Controller? i dont know...

Paladin has one at SimWardrobe (http://www.simwardrobe.com/)

Click on Sims 2 on the left hand side of the page then objects/robots/Servo Chore Controller and it will take you to the correct page.

[Fantasyrogue]

Ah thanks, I'll keep that controller in mind. I'm trying to keep the hacks down since this involves my legacy family and I'm already bending the rules on that one :P

[Menaceman44]

Maty also has a 'noservochores' mod that stops them wanting to do chores all together.


I discovered the other day that the lyrics to one of the metal songs are something like 'Dis grou iz froudershay!' and Sims in the Sims 1 used to say that all the time while eating food. I always used to assume it meant 'This food is wonderful!'
If thats the case then I can't imagine the song sold well in the Sims universe.

[psivampyr]

After I reinstalled Sim 2 onto my new puter (weee!) I loaded it up and found that some of the stuff packs I've had for almost a year came with premade homes! I guess my previous installs had so much borked cc in them I never saw the homes. But I am pleasantly surprised with the layouts of the home that came with Teen Style Stuff pack. Its a great starter family home- already decorated and everything. I also found a home that came with Kitchen and Bath pack- that one was pretty to look at, but not functional for more then 1-2 sims without toddlers. It was on a hill and that makes my camera woobly. But I just was so surprised to find stuff packs came with houses.

[treeag]

I discovered that my sims know about the soda pull tab "sex coupon" :lol: Too bad I didn't manage to take some screenies.

Two adult males and one teenager were having a nice dip in the hot tub when they started talking about woohoo, and the teenage boy suddenly have these thought bubbles about soda cans... They only talked about soda cans and woohoo for the next few minutes :rofl: I can imagine they were teaching the younger male how to pull the ring off...

[Menaceman44]

Thats just gone right over my head, treeag.

[Night Racer]

..............uumm.......
i guess you have to be gay to understand it? maybee....?
(was that rude? if so...sorry)

i discoverd that if you place a block of foundation...put the new AL ornate metal fence with silver accent on one edge...delte fondation then put the base game iron fence with like...i lion head plate desighn on the glound under it...it looks like a really cool taller fence!

[treeag]

:blink: That's not even remotely related to gayness, and I'm a straight girl... You don't get it? Wait I'm trying to find a reference of that urban legend.

Ok here (http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp) it is. Scroll down a bit until the part where they start talking about the soda pull tabs and beer labels.

[Menaceman44]

Ok, now I understand. I'd never heard of that before and I grew up in the 90s.

[Night Racer]

...o...sorry then... :(
AANNYYWWAAYY.. i also discovered that for fall themed neighborhoods: the yellow wildflower neighborhood effect looks alot like fallen leaves for your neighborhoods! :D

also...dose somone want to tell me why the ORANGE neighborhood flowers are yellow...but the YELLOW neighborhood flowers...are orange? :s

[treeag]

Maybe it's not that popular in UK and other parts of the world ;) It's not too popular among people my age too (I'm 19), but we do know about it :)

By the way thanks for the tip Night Racer :D The one about the wildflowers.

[crocobaura]

I just found out yesterday that a sim dreaming about gaming will get a boost in gaming hobby enthusiasm while sleeping. I had a sim who had full gaming enthusiams and while sleeping some icons for the videogame machine and pool came up and he was "in the zone" and started glowing . lol :rofl:

[melethana]

when your child sim brings home a friend from school, they can bring home child sims that are in the adoption pool! I had seeded the adoption pool with a bunch of girls, because all the Maxis girls I adopt are hideous, the boys tend to be okay. First I was stunned that not only was the guest child wearing some fakepeeps7 cc clothes, but the skirt and blouse matched. Then I realized that she was so pretty because I had made her! I guess the kids in the orphanage still have to go to school! :lol:

[treeag]

Today I found out that I too suffer from the school bus bug in AL :( In my game only kids in private school are affected though, it seems.

[Night Racer]

well you can always use the new walk to school feature. :D

[I_Love_Simming]

Yes i noticed that walk to school feature the other day, very useful! :D

Well, one of my familys has a womrat, and its the first time ive ever had one. I discovered you should NOT put it in the kids bedroom, it wakes them up with running on its wheel at night. Haha, reminds me of when i had a hamster and i couldn't keep it in my room from it running on its wheel :lol:

[Kusama]

It's a bit strange, Lauren, why parrots don't wake sims up, but hamsters do :D

[scalad]

Don't know if this has been mentioned but when it was raining I saw the water running on the tiles of the roof!

[edejan]

For the first time, I saw a sim (the oldest Broke boy) playing in the refrigerator and swinging on the fridge door. Never saw that before. Also the same sim took off his clothes and was nude while doing homework..that was weird...I don' have any hacks which relate to sex or inteen or any censor blur removers...so I can't figure out that one - and he had a female friend from school sitting with him...o.O

[Ferret II]

I discovered that fountains get icicles in the winter.

[kayleigh83]

This is more like what I discovered yesterday buuut...

I never really noticed before that Sims have such an authentic pregnant walk!! It's soo cute!! I love how they walk so slow with the belly way out in front, kind of a waddle. It's so much like real life I just love it. LOL

[Ferret II]

Oh, I found out something else!

My neat-freak sim (10 points) Jennifer cleans when she is in red aspiration! Some sims throw a tantrum, or cry, but not Jen. She cleans to get out her fustration!

[Charley-x]

i discovered how cute the playground animations are (the expressions) - i hav'nt really played since i installed AL major lag...
also i found out something else but i don't remember.. lol

[lazzybum]

-i found out cats can sleep on counters; I always see them sit on it, but never sleep!

-also that my sim survived from being burned in a fire, fire died out on her and she didnt even look burned >_>

-not only can pet beds be an easier replacement for cribs, its also sound proof! My toddler was sleeping on a petbed with a stereo 3 feet away, and her father turned it on to work out, and it didnt even effect her.

[I_Love_Simming]

I found out one of the songs on the pop station which i thought sounded cool, is actually a real song. Vanilla Sky - on and on

<3 You Tube

[romyhorse]

I discovered dogs eat flowers.

[novemberlove_SC]

That steps can break :blink: It was probably a glitch, but the stairs leading outside of my sims house was literally broken (a step was missing and the railing was broken as well). None of my sims could leave the house until I fixed it.

[melethana]

you cannot put electronics that are turned on into your inventory.
I could never figure out why sometimes Mr. Humble's computer would go in, and sometimes it wouldn't. Then I tried to put the cheap radio in an inventory, and it wouldn't go. I sent a sim to turn it off, and presto! The radio could now be placed in an inventory.

[Night Racer]

sims that died...and had 10 neat points...if they are turned into ghosts...will clean toilets (and maybee other things im not sure)

[Charley-x]

I discovered thst the noises a female sim is making when getting proposed to is slight disturbing.

[lazzybum]

you cannot put electronics that are turned on into your inventory.
I could never figure out why sometimes Mr. Humble's computer would go in, and sometimes it wouldn't. Then I tried to put the cheap radio in an inventory, and it wouldn't go. I sent a sim to turn it off, and presto! The radio could now be placed in an inventory.

lol nice! I always thought it was a bug that I cant put Mr. Humble's computer in my inventory >:O

[psivampyr]

My husband just found out that you can break a grandfather cloth. His sim wound it up, then selected "maintain" and the thing just fell apart. Its a brand new clock- he had built the house like 2 days ago. lol we were both shocked.

[Menaceman44]

I've notice the Grandfather clocks in my game will always break if I allow a Sim to maintain until they stop on their own. If I stop them before they do though the clock is usually fine.

[simsample]

My husband just found out that you can break a grandfather cloth. His sim wound it up, then selected "maintain" and the thing just fell apart. Its a brand new clock- he had built the house like 2 days ago. lol we were both shocked.

I really love this one- I think they added it purposely to stop people who had played the original Sims game from getting too complacent. In the Sims 1 you could gain skill from maintaining the grandfather clock.

[babicatz05]

I discovered dogs eat flowers.

Ooh, I hate my Legacy sim's dog! Luigi is always munching on flowers no matter how many time Jack scolds him.

[psivampyr]

I found out lastnight the Butler gains gardening skill when working in your veggie garden- he was getting the badge+ sign over his head watering them.
Also- very bad side effect of Butler- not sure if its a bug in my game. Butlers are not nanny's and are not considered daycare. My new babies in my house were taken away because there were no adults in the house except the butler. I had to exit without saving and hire a nanny, fire the butler, rehire the butler. I had to fire him because he would send the nanny home when she arrived. So to keep him from relieving the duties of the other help, I had to rehire him and tell him I didn't want him to do all thier duties. I like the butler alot as he helps with the twins and does more work then the other help does.

[JanePstar]

That Randy London is a backstabbing son of a townie that maxis made. :blink:

[Willow's Tara]

psivampry- Some bulters are good help but some tend to be really annoying when their's babies (It depends, if the baby needs to fed and all of my sims are occupied, it's the Bulter to the rescue! But if the mother just fed the baby and put it back to the crib the bulter takes them back out. For example my toddler sims Ruby and Amber, now the mother puts them in the crib but then the bulter takes them out seconds later despite poor Amber's energy level is already down, I don't notice until a bit later because I am busy with the older sims, so I usually hire the bulters after they are children).

I learnt alot of interesting messages can come up, for example one of my romance sims was offered a blind date (Although it was by the same man she just slept with! Had to get him out before she asked the blind date on a date).

Sims now say goodbye to other sims before they leave (I thimnk it came from AL's), some sims can also get you promotion.

There's more I discovered but I can;t remeber them lol

[akksgurl_SC]

I discovered that apartment neighbors can receive genie lamps. I was playing the Martins and the gypsy showed up to drop off a genie lamp except she dropped it off on their neighbor's porch (they're in townhouses). I didn't think anything of it until I went to buy mode to try and move it into their house and it wasn't selectable. So then I looked in the memories and none of the Martins had a memory of receiving it. And the really weird thing is that they were still able to use it. :blink:

[Beef Ninja_SC]

I was having a Sim flirt with a Servo (lol) and I noticed one of the flirting options is "tune up".

[savemykissesx]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a339/xtheusedxtbs/Untitled-4.jpg

I already knew this could happen, but I just thought it was a bit odd that a romance sim had a want to marry and a fear to marry at the same time, odddddd. :)

[Stumbleine]

I was having a Sim flirt with a Servo (lol) and I noticed one of the flirting options is "tune up".

Hehehe I have to try that.

I just noticed (after years of playing) that I can link all three universities to one neighborhood! I wonder if a new EP allowed that, because I swear I would have noticed that before...

[savemykissesx]

Stumbleine -- I just noticed that TOO like a couple of weeks ago, and that is what made me wonder if it was because of a new EP, too.. not sure though. hmm!

[jenniferrsg]

A couple days ago, I discovered if you change the owner of a car, they'll drive themselves to school/work.

[cassieandra]

I found out one of the songs on the pop station which i thought sounded cool, is actually a real song. Vanilla Sky - on and on

<3 You Tube

Wow, that's amazing. I actually downloaded some of Vanilla Sky's songs for Italian last Semester because we had to research a famous Italian and I was allowed to do a band.
Weird to think that it's in TS2.

[ani_]

If you have two sims that don't like each other, and one decides to play pillow fighting and hits the other sim with the pillow, it's not fun, the sim who got hit will hold their nose as if it hurts :)

[FuryFanFiction]

I discovered that paintings can have frames! I love that little detail!

I also discovered that if you invite someone over, and they are trying to sleep, and you make too much noise, that person will say "You invite me over and you won't let me sleep so I am leaving!". I thought it was funny!

[novemberlove_SC]

If a sim is standing in front of the tv while another sim is watching it, they'll shoo them out of the way :p

[hockeystatqueen_SC]

I learned that if there's a toddler in a high chair and you have another sim "Serve" a meal, they will serve a bowl (of the usual toddler food, though) from the platter to the toddler.

http://i37.tinypic.com/wbe9g2.jpg

[FuryFanFiction]

I forgot one other thing.

We can decorate the pool walls and floors with wallpaper and flooring! I don't know if we could always do that, but I was so shocked when I figured that out!

[Santje]

sims that died...and had 10 neat points...if they are turned into ghosts...will clean toilets (and maybee other things im not sure)
Thats a funny one!

[RaineSims]

I just noticed (after years of playing) that I can link all three universities to one neighborhood! I wonder if a new EP allowed that, because I swear I would have noticed that before...

I thought that was always possible, but wasn't recommended because it can bug your game. I think I recall something wrong with the secret society lot if you have mulitple unis present.

[novemberlove_SC]

I knew there was a "static shock" interaction but I thought it came with an EP I didn't have, but then today a child did it autonomously :anime: I also realized it can only be done when they're standing on carpet (which makes sense :P)

[babicatz05]

Omg! I had no idea that there's a static shock interaction! Awesome. :D

[novemberlove_SC]

Yeah, its really cute. The kids rub their feet on the carpet and then poke the other sim :P I still don't know what EP it comes with though (I have NL, Uni, OFB, Pets, Seasons & BV)

EDIT: Actually, I think its done on rugs, since the room they were in had wood flooring and a rug on top.

[babicatz05]

I have all ep's so I'll have to try it the next time I play :D

[maven2379]

The shock that the kids do is funny, I just saw that the other day, and yes I think it is rugs they were standing on a rug in a room with wooden floors.

I discovered that it is not only good things that can happen with your Sims reputation in AL. I have an apt building that has more than one playable family in it, for a sim week the guy that I wasn't playing had been fighting/poking/shoving a townie neighbor. When I loaded the game to play him I almost immediately got a message from the townie that said he knew my landlord and that he would be making a phone call, and he hoped I liked my new rent, and the rent did go up!

[longdaysend]

lets see, today i discovered that i am, at times, a complete moron (see stupidquestions thread) lol.

i also discovered that insims 'pregnancy status' option lies. had a couple who thanks to ACR were going at it like bunnies. since i have silent pregnancy as well as an upped chance of procreation from regular woohoo i was keeping an eye on Mirras status. after a few days of non stop boinking it came up pregnant with 2 babies..fine, no biggie i can handle twins no problem...fast forward to the birth and she had not 2 but 4 babies out on the front lawn.....*sigh* now she wants 6 more for an even 10,joy.

also discovered that sims are attracted to puppies so much they will hover at the brink of death just to give the pups one more snuggle....first litter and doubting I'll do it again after the way those darn sims acted about them.

[ani_]

That toddler will kiss the cat's head after snuggling with them - it's absolutely adorable :valentine I don't remember did it happen with dogs as well after cuddling.

[Night Racer]

i discovered that i am a OCD dictator of a ruler...and my sims cant do anything on there own unless it makes them un-annoying
i obsess over there needs far to much... :(

and that alot of the tight "bella" tube tops are actualy really very nice....if only they had matching skirts :(

[Ferret II]

When toddlers cuddle dogs, they kiss the dog on the head :luff:

[Zeluna]

I knew that real neat sims when cleaning get the scrubbing bubbles action and sparklies BUT...i had never seen this till today, my one sim went out and washed a window! First time i've ever seen that :)

[IceAngel12891]

lets see, today i discovered that i am, at times, a complete moron (see stupidquestions thread) lol.

i also discovered that insims 'pregnancy status' option lies. had a couple who thanks to ACR were going at it like bunnies. since i have silent pregnancy as well as an upped chance of procreation from regular woohoo i was keeping an eye on Mirras status. after a few days of non stop boinking it came up pregnant with 2 babies..fine, no biggie i can handle twins no problem...fast forward to the birth and she had not 2 but 4 babies out on the front lawn.....*sigh* now she wants 6 more for an even 10,joy.

also discovered that sims are attracted to puppies so much they will hover at the brink of death just to give the pups one more snuggle....first litter and doubting I'll do it again after the way those darn sims acted about them.

Its not that it lied, lol, it just can't predict triplets and quadruplets.

[longdaysend]

Its not that it lied, lol, it just can't predict triplets and quadruplets.


yeah yeah, i see how it is...take InSims side

:dsausage: i'm taking my sausage and going home then :P

[guest45]

When I was playing my sim family today; one of the sims randomly bursts into flames. The strangest thing was that the sims didn't die or anything.

[IceAngel12891]

yeah yeah, i see how it is...take InSims side

:dsausage: i'm taking my sausage and going home then :P

Oh, I was a little mad at Insim myself the first time it happened haha. Have you every tried changing the chances (I forget which hack it comes with...the triplets, quad one I assume) and putting the quads at like 50%, the triplets at 30%, the twins at 15% and the single at 5%? It has had some interesting results lol.

[longdaysend]

Iceangel, if i get quads with the chances at 15% i shudder to think what would happen if i set them up any higher. when i first discovered trips&quads back in the early ofb days i would pick quads every time...i ended up with moms arms permanently stuck backwards and several children with heads on the wrong way round....good times, man, good times :D

with the random only i thought i would be safer,lol apparently not!

[melethana]

when you woohoo a burglar, you get a woohoo with service sim memory, just like the maid, and the hostesses. I never would have thought of burglary as being a service. :confused:

[FuryFanFiction]

You can Woohoo and Try for Baby in the new closets. Its kinda funny!

[Lemon&Lime]

Has anyone ever looked inside a repo van?

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff142/Tangodancer17/snapshot_f43a9adb_f607825f-1.jpg

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff142/Tangodancer17/snapshot_f43a9adb_96078273.jpg

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff142/Tangodancer17/snapshot_f43a9adb_5607829b.jpg

I never realised that an inside of them actually existed!

[starried]

Sim cleaning window...

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i221/cuteness_ahead/misc_imgs/cleaning.jpg

Her main hobby is Nature and she used to do this quite often, so that's probably part of the idle animation thingy.

[Fantasyrogue]

^ Sims clean windows if they have really high neat points. I'm not actually sure what the nature idle animation is.

I just discovered you can recolour the bubble blower's pillows seperately. May not seem like much but I never realized!

[ktbcca]

Sims pee in the shower.

Which is disgusting, yet awesome.

[melethana]

the only Sim I ever saw clean a window had 8 neatness points and was in aspirarion failure becuase she just saw her husband kiss another woman.

[Menaceman44]

The only Sim I've ever seen clean a window was an elder woman with high cleaning skill who had just gone out for a date. As soon as she arrived at the date lot she walked over to a window to clean it. Her aspiration was fine.

[McKate]

Today one of my sims greeted her friend with a secret handshake thing. I'd never seen that before, I'd only seen the regular handshake, the hug and the kiss!

[Menaceman44]

Well Secret Society Sims from Uni have their own special greet.

[McKate]

I don't have Uni though, I play with the base game only. They were friends but not best friends yet, and they spent like 2 (real) minutes doing the little handshake thingy :)

[JavaJulie]

I don't have Uni though, I play with the base game only. They were friends but not best friends yet, and they spent like 2 (real) minutes doing the little handshake thingy :)


If you only play with the base game, they may have been playing Red Hands, as I'm not aware of any greetings that would take two minutes in real time to play. It's seems to be a favorite game for bored Sims to play together.

[sophiemxx]

i made self sims of me and my boyfriend with both a dog and a cat. When we showed up in the family pannel in the neighbourhood instead of having 20,000 they had 26,000 :D

[tlynnjpeg]

If you only play with the base game, they may have been playing Red Hands, as I'm not aware of any greetings that would take two minutes in real time to play. It's seems to be a favorite game for bored Sims to play together.

Heck, it seems to be a favourite game for highly-entertained Sims to play together. Especially if you'd rather they were doing anything else.

I discovered, or rather experienced for the first time, a Sim getting a promotion because of a friendship. I'd heard tell of this, even seen screencaps. But I've been playing for 3 years, and never had it happen. I think I need to let my Sims make more friends (it's just so much work!).

[kasandra_SC]

Actually I have had sims do secret handshake type greetings before when I had just the base game. I haven't seen it in awhile though.

[Kusama]

Why they're secret? Can't they just be one of the random greetings?

[Neeri_SC]

This might sound horrible but today i discovered that my romance sim could have all the lovin' she wanted, as long as her husband wasn't in the same room as her and her fling.

o_O;... kind of freaky.

[RaineSims]

This might sound horrible but today i discovered that my romance sim could have all the lovin' she wanted, as long as her husband wasn't in the same room as her and her fling.

o_O;... kind of freaky.

Sounds like you much have a mod/hack in your game. I am pretty sure that if your sim woohoo's another sim, the husband should know if he is on the lot.

[Neeri_SC]

Sounds like you much have a mod/hack in your game. I am pretty sure that if your sim woohoo's another sim, the husband should know if he is on the lot.


Yes i just noticed that 8D
He became a tad furious, But since they both studied couples counseling it didn't take long to redeem their relationship.

haha! what am i suppose to do when the wife's life time want is 20 simultaneously lovers and the Husbands is to reach gold anniversary! :D fun times.

And no, i wont mod / hack my way to change her life time want.

The problem is solved by sending the husband to work! >;)

[lazzybum]

I discovered sims can put plates and eat on the bar thing D: (never tried since sims 1 never did it)

[savemykissesx]

I found out right now that your kids can run away from home, too.. I thought it was just pets.

I'm a little confused because my sim son had a good relationship with everyone in the home and he was in a perfect mood... yet he just randomly said he had enough of us and ran away. ):

I think my lot is messed up, to be honest, because when I press the 3 speed it moves as fast as the 1 speed, and randomly people keep bursting into flames while doing things outside.. it's odd

[musiquefille_SC]

I think my lot is messed up, to be honest, because when I press the 3 speed it moves as fast as the 1 speed, and randomly people keep bursting into flames while doing things outside.. it's odd

One time that speed thing happened to me because I didn't realize I had turned the video camera on by accidentally hitting "V". It wasn't until it hit the time limit for videos (which was like 60 seconds) that it popped up and told me I had been taping and I realized why it was so slow even when I hit 3 speed.

[ani_]

Not today - but over some time. I'v noticed that the game is trying to syncranize pregnancies to fit the growing up time of 18:00 better (or at least this is my theory). For example if my sim gets pregnant between ten and eleven, she gets her first pregnant tummy 24h later + a few hours. The next tummy 24h from first tummy + a few hours, and the baby itself is then born 24h later + a few hours. Usually this means kids are born in the wee hours of the night - but before six a clock.

[Neeri_SC]

ARGH annoyance!

I just noticed that Sim's have disturbed views on relationships.

I just moved in my legacy founders in their new home (cause everything crashed)

And you all know one gets some visitors on a new lot, Sure enough i greet them all to make some friends.

When i focus on the girl, Irynda, I didn't notice the guy, Lethie, talking to one of the cordial sisters. I didn't bother tho, they were just chatting.

Suddenly theres some romance drama and some slaps are handed out, i quickly move my camera over to Lethie and notice he wasn't involved in the drama.

Anyways, it gets late and i use Lethie to tell everyone go to home. This interaction is used on one of the cordial sisters. And he fricken eats her face up while saying good bye to her.

WHY IS HE MAKING OUT WITH A WOMAN HE DOESN'T KNOW?!! and they only have 54 in relationship. NO heart or anything!

what why, D; its so messed up. >;(

hes suppose to get with MY girl and hes already macking some stranger!

[ani_]

Neeri: acr?

[Neeri_SC]

Neeri: acr?

No idea what that means. =/

[RaineSims]

No idea what that means. =/

ACR = Autonomous Casual Romance.
It's a hack from twojeffs at simbiology that lets sims have romantic relations autonomously. :) It can really stir up your neighborhood.

[Ferret II]

ACR = Autonomous Casual Romance.
It's a hack from twojeffs at simbiology that lets sims have romantic relations autonomously. :) It can really stir up your neighborhood.

I second that, look what ACR did in my legacy:

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p415/spencer-legacy/6%20point%203/100.jpg

They hate each other, but because they have two bolts OMG THEY MUST KISS GOODBYE.

[Neeri_SC]

Ooh okey, Well i don't have that hack. xD

I just think Lethie is desperate since hes a family sim he needs a FEMALE TO BREED WITH, AND QUICK! haha xD

[ILoveHugs02]

Not today - but over some time. I'v noticed that the game is trying to syncranize pregnancies to fit the growing up time of 18:00 better (or at least this is my theory). For example if my sim gets pregnant between ten and eleven, she gets her first pregnant tummy 24h later + a few hours. The next tummy 24h from first tummy + a few hours, and the baby itself is then born 24h later + a few hours. Usually this means kids are born in the wee hours of the night - but before six a clock.

Whenever my Sim is pregnant, she gets her first belly 24 hours after getting pregnant, then 25 hours after that she gets her second belly, then 26 hours after that she has her baby.

[slipknot93]

n the university neigbourhood the colour of the diamond above the sism head is the colour of there aspiration level, while at the main nighbourhood it's the colour of there mood...

[dameautour]

I bet this has been around since Sims 1 and I just never noticed in all of these years but...

today I finally realized that if they go to bed after 8pm, they will stay in bed until 6am!! This is going to change my playing style for the better. Now no more Sims wandering around at 3am, screwing up their moods for work/school.

I also discovered basements.

[Lemon&Lime]

I bet this has been around since Sims 1 and I just never noticed in all of these years but...

today I finally realized that if they go to bed after 8pm, they will stay in bed until 6am!! This is going to change my playing style for the better. Now no more Sims wandering around at 3am, screwing up their moods for work/school.

I also discovered basements.

No, that's not quite true. :P

If your Sim's Energy meter is still not full by midnight, they'll sleep until 6am. If your Sim's energy meter is full before midnight, they'll wake up.

[melethana]

maybe it's my beds, but my Sims always get up when their energy bar is full (except for the vampires during the day) regardless of when they go to bed, or what time it is. I do use this bed in almost all my houses, very cheap and with a mad energy/comfort rating
http://nene.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=62418

[ani_]

The sleeping till six am came with Seasons I think.

I discovered that you can't enter a community lot owned by a sim from the neighborhoodview.

[~ParkerSims~]

Well you can, Ani, but you gotta use the loadlot cheat.

[sliimshaydi]

Young adults walk so funny while holding toddlers. They lean back really far it's so weird. I always lol when I see it haha :D

[Kusama]

Young adults walk funny whole time... :wtf:

[ani_]

parkersims: thanks.

[Charley-x]

about 6-10 secs after the sims get out the pool they make a simlish noise and wipe they're forehead and water comes off. its too cute, my sim kid did i and it was adorable! :P

[Night Racer]

^^i tohguht they only do it when there hot and sweaty....

[dameautour]

No, that's not quite true. :P

If your Sim's Energy meter is still not full by midnight, they'll sleep until 6am. If your Sim's energy meter is full before midnight, they'll wake up.

Thanks for the tip! My Sims are always dead tired before they go to bed (way too much to do during waking hours) so they always stayed asleep past midnight.

I think for Sims who can't afford the best beds from the start, I can put them to bed early from now on and they'll stay asleep until 6am.

New discoveries: previously I discovered basements when playing one of the city house lots. But it's been hard figuring out how to make my own basements. Unless someone has an easier way, what I've been doing is laying houses with foundation, then deleting the foundation except for the edges. Then deepening the terrain underneath and voila, basement.

Also discovered decorations about an hour ago (seriously, didn't know you could decorate the neighborhood). I also figured out how to lock a Sim inside of a room so that they die. You don't have to delete the door, you can just have another Sim lock it (once the victim is inside the room) so only they are allowed. That makes it more realistic too, if you want a murderer Sim. I don't know if locking doors comes with the game or if it is some hack I've downloaded.

I also discovered replacement CAS faces! OMG, no more gorilla Sims!! I downloaded some and it's just so weird, having normal looking folk.

[MacHeadMandi]

Sims who meditate until they're capable of floating can *TELEPORT*! Squee!

[savemykissesx]

I discovered how much I hate having a roommate in an apartment when you have a baby. My roomie keeps taking the baby and leaving him outside! ):

[Jennybean]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/jennyness/NEW.jpg

My sim was calling up an old friend to catch up, and as it turns out he gave my sim a flat-screen TV!! Worth $8000 :D
Is this new with AL or has it been around forever and I never noticed?

[Charley-x]

^^i tohguht they only do it when there hot and sweaty....

No it was autumn, and she just got out the pool so if anything she'd been cold. :meh:.

[JavaJulie]

My sim was calling up an old friend to catch up, and as it turns out he gave my sim a flat-screen TV!! Worth $8000 :D
Is this new with AL or has it been around forever and I never noticed?

New with AL - it's a result of the Reputation System.

[savemykissesx]

I noticed that one of my sims is very very good with kids, granted he has the family aspiration, but I've never had any of my sims tuck in his kids so much and kiss their heads and read them to sleep, it's adorable and I love it.

[Menaceman44]

Dameautour, thats pretty much how I make basements too but I don't usually bother with them anymore.

[Lemon&Lime]

The sleeping till six am came with Seasons I think.

I discovered that you can't enter a community lot owned by a sim from the neighborhoodview.

No it didn't. I did not have Seasons until last week and it always happened to me.

If Sims go to sleep and their energy bar is filled up before midnight they will get up straight away. Any time after that and they'll stay asleep. Test it, you'll see. Regardless of any expansion packs you have/don't have.